Film Festivals 1993
A grand diversity this year with a great many stand-out offerings including Stephen Poliakoff's provocotive "Close My Eyes", Colin Nutley's Ealing Comedies-inspired "House of Angels", the superb "Close to Eden" and Sally potter's lavish "Orlando". On the darker side was Abel Ferrara's uncompromising "Bad Lieutenant"; Robert Rodriguez showed anyone can make a low budget film with his original "El Mariachi"; and also off the blocks was Quentin Tarantino with "Reservoir Dogs" (Right).
Olivier Olivier (1993)
7.6/10
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Starring: Francois Cluzet, Brigitte Rouan, Gregoire Colin
A brooding, based-on-fact account of a country couple whose young son mysteriously disappears. Six years later he 'reappears' but is no longer the spe... Read more
Wittgenstein (1993)
6.9/10
Director: Derek Jarman
Starring: Karl Johnson, Michael Gough, Tilda Swinton
Derek Jarman immaculately lenses a series of dazzling, colourful pictures to illustrate the tortured life of Austrian-born philosopher Ludwig Wittgens... Read more
Calendar (1993)
6.8/10
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Arsinee Khanjian, Atom Egoyan, Ashot Adamian
With this beautiful and evocative film set in Armenia and Canada, Atom Egoyan ('Exotica', 'The Sweet Herafter') filtered his abiding obsessions into t... Read more
Bread and Roses (1993)
7.1/10
Director: Gaylene Preston
Starring: Genevieve Picot, Mick Rose, Donna Akersten
Based on the autobiography of Sonya Davies. This moving epic story of one woman's experience spans twenty years from 1940 and captures the hopes and a... Read more
The Long Day Closes (1993)
7.5/10
Director: Terence Davies
Starring: Leigh McCormack, Majorie Yates, Anthony Watson
A poignant slice-of-life remembrance by director Davies ('Distant Voices - Still Lives') picturing a postwar England which seems to be yearning for an... Read more
The Wedding Banquet (1993)
7.7/10
Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Winston Chao, May Chin, Mitchell Lichtenstein
Gay Taiwanese-American Winston Chao tries to fool his parents via a fake wedding, with unexpected complications. This grand comedy knowingly and poign... Read more
The Stolen Children (1992)
7.5/10
Director: Gianni Amelio
Starring: Enrico Lo Verso, Valentina Scalici, Florence Darel
A wonderful story of the friendship that grows between a young carbiniere and the two abused children he is escorting from Milan to a foster home in P... Read more
Careful (1992)
7.2/10
Director: Guy Maddin
Starring: Kyle McCulloch, Gosia Dobrowolska, Sarah Neville, Brent Neale
"I made my first trip to the West Coast ever and realised, 'I want to make a movie about mountains.' (Co-writer) George Toles wanted to make a pro-inc... Read more
Simple Men (1992)
7.2/10
Director: Hal Hartley
Starring: Robert Burke, William Sage, Karen Sillas, Elina Lowensohn, Martin Donovan
A stylish, entertaining tale of brothers Robert Burke and William Sage, who set out in search of their fugitive father who in the late 60s became a bo... Read more
Incident at Oglala (1992)
7.6/10
Director: Michael Apted
Starring: Narrated by, Robert Redford
The true story that inspired the film 'Thunderheart' focuses on the case of Leonard Peltier, a native American convicted of killing two FBI agents on... Read more